Dryer Boost

This morning I was feeling pretty gross. My cold has invaded my sinuses and my head was pounding. Still, I have a deadline at work and needed to head in to work.

After my shower I started looking for some jeans but couldn’t find any. The only ones I could find were still in the dryer and a little damp. After a few minutes drying time I snagged them out of the dryer and slid them on.

Oh mama. It was heavenly. All I could think about was the Seinfeld episode where Kramer was always heating his clothes before wearing them. I totally get that episode now. It was just the boost I needed to get out the door.

Rowdy System

There is a plan in Victoria to try and solve the rowdy bar patron problem. They want to scan people’s drivers licences upon entry, then if they are thrown out, they can be denied entry later on.

Besides the potential privacy issues the problem I see is their implementation.

Do they expect the bouncers at the bar to keep remember people’s faces when they throw them out, then scan the system for the night to be able to block them? Maybe they will ask for their licence back as they are tossing the person on the street.

I think the plan is noble, but this idea is flawed.

Lego Destruction

On the weekend we were in Vancouver at Sox’s mum’s house. We were there to see some family off on their 8 month trip. Their son and ours always play well together and this weekend was no exception.

Something new for Elliot was the introduction of regular lego. For me it was a blast from the past. Gran had a large collection of lego that I think used to belong to one of Sox’s brothers.

I had a great time building things for the boys. I really had a great time. I forgot how much fun playing with lego was.

At one point I asked Elliot what he wanted me to build and he said monster truck. That then got changed to a monster tow truck. I obliged of course. I found some instructions from a set and based my truck on part of that. It turned out awesome. The boom raised, lowered, and swiveled. The doors opened. It had big wheels.

After showing it to the boys they were a little non-plussed. Elliot grabbed it right away and played with it, and soon they were taking parts off. Ahh, my hard work. I was a little disheartened to see the destruction. I guess I still need to grow up a little. 🙂

Packing Tendencies

The pack is on. I was working on the garage tonight clearing some stuff out, packing, purging, tossing away.

I will admit it, I am a pack rat. I keep a lot of stuff I don’t need to, so I am making great strides in getting rid of things. It is hard though.

Example? Tonight while in the garage I came across my old fishing gear. I sat on the floor of the garage and poked through my tackle box and other gear. Looking at old lures, poking through old containers, and reminiscing. I thought back to when I used to go fishing a lot.

My friend Trevor and I would go a couple times a week in the summer after grade 12. Englishman River was a common destination. We would hike up the river stopping at all the fishing holes along the way. I remember a specific time where I stopped and sat on the sun warmed rocks and just listened to the babbling river.

I then remembered time I spent fishing with my father. We would often go out in his little aluminum boat and troll around various lakes. We would eat sunflower seeds while fishing.

I then thought about taking my kids fishing and introducing them to what was once a favorite past time of mine.

I think I held on to those things since they remind me of good and happy times in my childhood. Not everything in my childhood was bad, but I definitely like to keep the things that remind me of especially happy times.

So the question is what do I do? Do I keep the gear? Do I give it away? I haven’t gone fishing since 93. What if I want to take it up again? Ahhh, my pack rat tendencies are making me think twice.

Conflicts Handler

Tonights game was an early one which suited me just fine. I needed to work this evening, so the early game meant I could eat some dinner then get some stuff done.

One thing about my team is that several people are on multiple teams (some are on 3 teams). This means that sometimes they can’t play for our team due to schedule conflicts.

Tonight we had 4 players show up, but one of them played for a different team the he was also on. We lost by default which sucks. I am the kind of person that likes commitment. I committed my Thursday nights to the team, and I kind of expected everyone else on the team to be as committed.

Anyway, we ended up snagging a couple people from the other team and playing a 6 on 6 game for a while. We got creamed. The other team had 4 really strong players, and a couple other good players. We didn’t play well, made lots of mistakes on defence, and definitely deserved the loss.

I still sort of had fun though. I really needed to get out and run to blow off some steam, and I accomplished that tonight. Handling-wise I wasn’t all that hot if I was a dedicated handler. If I was a mid or a winger then my throws were fine, but as a handler I threw it away a lot. Weird.

I did have a couple good throws though. The first I was going to hammer to one of the guys in the end zone. I faked a hammer to him, and the defense noticed this and converged on him. I hesitated, looked around, and saw one of our ladies in the end zone all alone. My check was on me pretty good, so my only option was a hammer. It was a perfect throw, and she made a great catch. I felt good about that play.

Another situation where we were aiming for the endzone I looked up and saw two ladies in the endzone not really being checked. I hammered to the further one, but the closer lady tried to catch it. Meanwhile the defense caught up to the play. The closer lady actually had the disk skip through her hands, the defense swiped at it, but barely tipped it, and the further lady actually caught it. I felt lucky for that play.

After the game I felt like I had done a good workout. My legs still feel a little drained.

Stressful Month

I haven’t really posted about this here yet, but the move is on. We have been in the process of buying a house recently, and the deal was finalized yesterday.

This was an interesting process, and definitely not like what I would have thought it would be. Intense, stressful, protracted, and in the end, satisfying. We are very excited by our new place and in some ways can’t wait to be in it. We will still be in Esquimalt, which was something we were hoping for, and the house is perfect for us (save some obvious updates needed).

There is the rub. We take possession in one month exactly. Between now and then we need to decrapify, sell old stuff we no longer need, pack, clean, and move. Lots to do, and really not a lot of time.

I called our landlord tonight and gave notice to him. That did not go well. He knew we were looking for a place, but was unprepared that we would find something so soon. When I told him we were looking, he mentioned that he was going to put the house up for sale, so I am not entirely sure why he was so surprised we found Anyway. A new place to live is definitely cause for celebration. If only there was time for that 🙂

Upgrade Tags

I re-did the upgrade here tonight. I still have a few things to fix up, but I am hoping I can handle that. I need to get my theme reinstated, which may take a bit of work (not sure).

More strangely, I am using the image module to store the photoblog I created for project 365. That image gallery is not showing the images any more. The image tags are missing from the html. Very weird.

Also, I had some customs views using the views module. Those are gone too, but I did export them from the version 5. Importing fails 🙁

The one that will take the most work is my custom module for showing posts on this date in previous years. I rely on the archive module, which has changed, and has thus broken my module 🙁

Happy to have this site at drupal 6 though

Tank Explosion

One of my Cory’s died recently. I was bummed since they had been around for quite a while, and I thought they were happy and well fed. Not sure what happened.

In general the tank is doing very well. I haven’t made any changes in a while, but I think the last plant I bought came with some travellers. I am having a bit of a snail explosion right now. The other day I counted 10 different snails, some tiny (approx 2mm wide), and a couple quite large (1-2 cm long).

I like snails, but I can’t say I like them proliferating on their own. Not sure what to do about a snail explosion.